Electrically-lighted satchel.



C. H. HOLTON.

ELEG TRIQ'ALLY LIGHTED SATCHEL. APPLICATIONFILED Aue.2|.1916.

Patented June 11, 1918 Hues. Y

cans H. on-ran", or BALTEIO,

Zo azz whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, (harms H. HO IJTON,

' a citizen of the United States, residingat Baltimore city, in theState of Maryland, 5 have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Electrically-Lighted Satchels,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an electricallylighted satchel. The smallbags, or hand-satchels carried by womenwhen shopping or travelmg, are

opened and closed by the action of a two-1 part metal frame. The twoparts of said metal frame have joints at their opposite ends and saidtwo frame-parts swing on said two joints. The flexible walls of the bagsor satchels are formed 'with a top,-

opening to the opposite side edges of which" the said two jointed metalframes are at- 29 tached. The users of these satchelsplace,

therein any kind of small articles which are often ina topsy-turvymingled condition,

and when a satchel is partly full it is. frequently a troublesome matterfor any one to pick out and abstract from the satchel any certainarticle desired because the interior of the satchel is dark.

- The object of this invention is to improve a satchel having twoflexible walls and a 30 frame-part-attached to-each wall, said twoframesbeing jointed together and forming the openlng to the satchel, byprovidin an electric light bulb within the interior 0 the satchel; anelectric battery; wire circuit 85. connections Which are carried by andmove with oneof'the frame parts'; a switchand;

a 'switch actuating device carried by the other frame-part and operatedby the opening and closing of said two jointed-together. 40 frames.

illustrating the electric lighting parts.

Referring now to the drawingwhose several parts are indicated bynumerals, the

.- fi'exib ifinated by the numeral, 4, the end walls by t e numeral, 5,the bottom, 6, the inner meta-l I fiame 7, the outer or overlappingmetal Specification of Letters Qatent.

T p acedand supported.

e two side walls of the satchela're des-- Patented a 11,1918.

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frame, 8, the saidtwo frames are coupled to gether at opposite ends by apivotv joint, 9,

and an ordinary catch or fastening'device,

10, is-used to lock or holdtsaid two pivoted frames when the'satchel isclosed. The faregoing described parts constitute an ordinary satchel. v

I provide an electric battery, 11, which may be positioned within thesatchel in any convenient location. The incandescent electric bulb, 12,.is shown in the present instance attached to or carried by one of thetwo metal frames,-8, and is secured by an o en case, 13; but the bulbmay be otherwise 7o A switch iscarried on one of the'jointedl 1frame-parts, 8, and said switch comprises acontact plate', 14, fixedrigidly to said metal frame-part, 8, from which it is insulated by apiece of suitable insulating material, 15, interposed between'theframe-part and contact, 14, see Fig. 3. The switch also includes amovable contact, tongue, 16, one end of i which has a right-angle shapeand is secured so to thesame frame-part, 8, and underlaid by insulatedmaterial, 15. The free end ofthe v contact tongue has position tounderlap the said fixedcontact-plate, 14. When this tongue, 16, actuallymakes contact with the fixed-plate, 14, the circuit is closed and thebulb, 12, becomes lighted" this lighted condition occurs only w en thesatchel is open. The, tongue, 16, is resilient, and it is this resilientproperty that causes it to make as contact with plate, "14, when thesatchel is open. To break the circuit a stud, 17, 1s employed'andprojects from the frame part,

7 to pressthe said tongue, 16, from its cons,

tactwithplate, 14, when the satchelis closed, as as shown in Fig. 2. Itwill be seen that the act of opening the satchel has the effect towithdraw the stud 17 from pressing against the said tongue, 16.

The, wire circuit is as .follows'z An insu- 10o lated wrapper, 18,incloses the twqwires, 19 and 20, and of these wires, the wire, 20,extends from one pole of the battery, 11, to

the lamp bulb while wire, 19, connects the other pole o the. batterywith contact tongue,u16. A wire, 21, connects the lampv bulb withsaid*contact-plate, 14, so that when the circuit is closed it willinclude battery, 11, wire, 20, lamp, 12, wire, 21, con.- tact plate, 14,tongue, 16, and wire, 19, back to the battery. d The tongue, 16,. isresilient and tends to to each wall and forming an opening to the engagethe c0ntact-plate, 14, but when the frame-parts, 7 and 8, are broughttogether to close the satchel the stud, 17 engages the tongue, 16, andpresses it away from and out of contact with the plate, 14:,therebyopening the circuit and extinguishing the light. The reverse istrue when the ,satchel is' opened in that the stud, 17, moves away fromtongue, 16, and. allows the latter to engage contact-plate, 14:, andthereby close .the circuit from the battery through the satchel, thesaid frame-part of one satchel wall being pivotally connected to theframemesses part of the other satchel-wall; an electric lamp inthe'satchel; a battery; a switch attached to one of said frame-partssaid switch having a movable contact device; connections-between'theswitch and the electric lamp; connections between the battery andswitch; a connection between the battery and lamp all of saidconnections being movable with one of the-frame-parts of the satchel,and means on the other frame-part of the satchel for moving the switchcontact to an open position when the two satchel frames are closedtogether.-

In testimony whereof I afix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses. CHARLES H. HOLTON. Witnesses:

CHAS. B. MANN, IZELLA, 1E. Enemy,

